Select Committee Victories Pass the House In the NDAA

United States House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party
December 10, 2025
Press Release

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI) of the Select Committee on China voted for the National Defense Authorization Act of 2026. The legislation included major Select Committee victories on outbound investment restrictions and the BIOSECURE Act.

“The Select Committee has tirelessly worked across the aisle to secure the major victories in today’s legislation. I am thankful for Speaker Johnson, Majority Leader Scalise, Congressman Barr, Senator Cornyn, Chairman Mast, Chairman Comer, Senator Hagerty, and all those who have never wavered in carrying outbound and BIOSECURE over the finish line,” said Moolenaar. “The outbound investment restrictions in this legislation align with President Trump’s America First Investment Policy and will prevent American dollars from supporting Chinese companies that are developing China’s capabilities in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, semiconductors, and other critical technologies. As we documented in our April 2024 report, American venture capitalists have provided billions of dollars to Chinese companies that work with PLA to develop the technologies of the future. They must stop funding our adversary.

“BIOSECURE is also a major win for the Select Committee and our country. It will protect the genetic data of Americans while securing our pharmaceutical supply chains. China has shown it will weaponize any and all sources of dependency against us, and we cannot let biotechnology become the next rare earth-style loaded gun aimed at the health of all Americans,” added Moolenaar.

The bill includes many key provisions championed by Chairman Moolenaar and Select Committee Republican members:

Advancing Technology, Innovation, and Investment Security

  • Codifies restrictions on outbound investment to ensure U.S. capital does not fuel the development of advanced Chinese technology sectors.
  • Includes the BIOSECURE Act, to ensure that taxpayer dollars do not support malign Chinese biotechnology companies
  • Establishes new requirements to protect advanced U.S. AI systems and datacenters from nation-state espionage, including PRC theft efforts.

Enhancing Security in the Indo-Pacific

  • Expands the Taiwan Security Cooperation Initiative, authorizing up to $1 billion in FY26 to accelerate Taiwan’s acquisition of critical defense capabilities.
  • Establishes a joint U.S.–Taiwan partnership focused on rapidly fielding uncrewed and counter-uncrewed systems.
  • Requires a mobilization exercise to test the nation’s ability to rapidly mobilize and sustain personnel, weapons, and equipment in a high-intensity conflict in the Indo-Pacific, modeled on the 1978 “Nifty Nugget” exercise.
  • Requires an Indo-Pacific multilateral defense strategy to deepen cooperation between Japan, Australia, Korea, and the Philippines.
  • Requires a study on the feasibility and advisability of incorporating additional active spaceports into the Pentagon’s national security launch infrastructure.

Strengthening the Defense Industrial Base and Supply Chain Security

  • Requires an assessment of high-risk U.S. critical defense infrastructure dependent on Chinese-sourced materials and components and associated threat mitigation strategy.
  • Strengthens prohibitions on the procurement of advanced batteries from foreign entities of concern.
  • Establishes a Civil Reserve Manufacturing Network to create auxiliary defense industrial facilities that could rapidly convert commercial manufacturing to defense industrial production.
  • Mandates a plan to transition certain defense-related critical readiness items advanced manufacturing where appropriate to rapidly scale output.
  • Creates a Pentagon working group to identify workforce shortages relating to advanced manufacturing and recommend training pipelines, public-private partnerships, and policy changes to strengthen industrial base talent.
  • Establishes a collaborative forum of government, industry, and academia to address systemic challenges relating to the defense industrial base.
  • Expands Pentagon authorities to accelerate qualification of advanced manufacturing sources and processes to rapidly field needed materials and components.
  • Directs a report on the defense industrial base’s surge capacity, as well as policies that would better incentivize its expansion.